Kingdom of the Nemencha
Kingdom of the Nemencha | |||||||||
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Map of the Romano-Berber Kingdoms, according to the French historian Christian Courtois. Number 5 is the Kingdom of the Nemencha. | |||||||||
| Status | Rump state of the Mauro-Roman Kingdom | ||||||||
| Common languages | Berber, African Romance Latin | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
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| Historical era | Medieval | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Algeria | ||||||||
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The Kingdom of the Nemencha is the name given to a postulated Romano-Berber kingdom located in the Nemencha Mountains of what is present-day Algeria. The historicity of the kingdom was proposed by the French historian Christian Courtois in his 1955 book Les Vandales Et L'Afrique. Whether this kingdom existed as a real polity, however, is far from certain, with the historian Abdallah Laroui arguing that Courtois's reasoning for its existence is "problematic".